SECTION 1: FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Martha Derthick Book Award
Award Committee: Tessa Provins (Chair), University of Arizona; Daniel Béland, McGill University; Paul Manna, College of William & Mary
Recipient: Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Julia Payson (Chair), University of California, Los Angeles; Jesse Crosson, Purdue University; Kyle Jaros, University of Notre Dame
Recipients: Fernando Meireles, Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro; Natalia S. Bueno, Emory University; Marcus Vinicius de Sa Torres, Federal University of Pernambuco
Title: “Coordination Advantage: An Explanation for Why Political Alignment Pays Off.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award
Award Committee: Claudia Avellaneda (Chair), Indiana University Bloomington; Ignacio Lago Peñas, Pompeu Fabra University; Paul Smoke, New York University
Recipient: Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles
John Kincaid Best Article Award
Award Committee: Heidi Jane Smith (Chair), Universidad Iberoamericana; Andres Mejia Acosta, University of Notre Dame; Zoe Nemerever, Auburn University
Recipients: Tyler Simko, University of Michigan, and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Virginia Commonwealth University Title: “Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 55(3): 531-562. 2025.
SECTION 2: LAW AND COURTS
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Shane Gleason (Chair), Trinity College; Jake Truscott, University of Florida; Michael Catalano, University of Scranton; Elizabeth Lane, North Carolina State University
Recipient: Hyein Yang, Cornell University
Title: “Vertical Checks and Balances: State Attorneys General and State Litigation.”
Best Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Logan Strother (Chair), Purdue University; EmiLee Smart, Northern Arizona University; Siv Cherevu, Michigan State University; Taneisha Means, Vassar College
Co-Recipient: Hyein Yang, Cornell University
Title: “Vertical Checks and Balances: State Attorneys General and State Litigation.”
Co-Recipient: Sam England, Emory University
Title: “Does Agenda Order Matter for Courts? Evidence from Qualified Immunity.”
Teaching Award
Award Committee: Kathleen Bratton (Chair), Louisiana State University; Christine Bird, Oklahoma State University; Reid Krell, California State University, Northridge; Elisha Savchak-Trogdon, Elon University
Recipient: Logan Strother, Purdue University
Law and Courts Service Award
Award Committee: Lori Hausegger (Chair), Boise State University; David Glick, Boston University; Jonathon King, University of Georgia; Taraleigh Davis, Bradley University
Recipient: Susan Haire, University of Georgia
Best Article Published in the Journal of Law and Courts Award
Award Committee: Ali Masood (Chair), Oberlin College; Ethan Boldt, University of Massachusetts Boston; Bill Myers, University of Tampa
Recipient: Benjamin Garcia-Holgado, University of Delaware
Title: “Overruling the Executive: Judicial Strategies to Resist Democratic Erosion.” Journal of Law and Courts 13(1): 274-303. 2025.
Best Journal Article Award
Award Committee: Todd Curry (Chair), University of Texas at El Paso; Marcy Shieh, Miami University; Alison Merrill, Susquehanna University; Kirsten Widner, University of Tennessee
Recipients: Christine Bailey, Austin Peay State University; Paul M. Collins Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jesse H. Rhodes, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Douglas Rice, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: “The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community.” American Political Science Review 119(1): 108-123. 2025.
C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book
Award Committee: Brett Curry, Georgia Southern University; Tracy Lightcap, LaGrange University; Joe Ross, Florida Gulf Coast University
Recipients: Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University; Jay N. Krehbiel, State University of New York at Buffalo; Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University
Title: The Efficacy of Judicial Review: The Rule of Law and the Promise of Independent Courts. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Mentoring Award
Award Committee: Kathleen Bratton (Chair), Louisiana State University; Christine Bird, Oklahoma State University; Reid Krell, California State University, Northridge; Elisha Savchak-Trogdon, Elon University
Co-Recipient: Sahar Abi-Hassan, University of Tulsa
Co-Recipient: Shane Gleason, Trinity College
Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award
Award Committee: Tim Johnson (Chair), University of Minnesota; Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University; Justin Wedeking, University of Kentucky; Rachel Houston, Texas Christian University
Recipient: Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University (Emeritus) and Oyez Project
Law and Courts Lasting Contribution Award
Award Committee: Paul Collins (Chair), University of Massachusetts Amherst; Michael Romano, Shenandoah University; Natalie Rogol, Rhode Island College; Andrew Stone, University of Mississippi
Recipients: Brandon Bartels, George Washington University and Christopher D. Johnston, Duke University
Title: “On the Ideological Foundations of Supreme Court Legitimacy in the American Public.” American Journal of Political Science 57(1): 184-199. 2013.
SECTION 5: POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: David Miller, American University; Fernando Rosenblatt, Manchester University; Liliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University
Recipient: Vicente Valentim, IE University
Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
Award Committee: Jesse Crosson, Purdue University; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Lucia Motolonia, Washington University in St. Louis
Recipients: Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego and Robert Thomson, Hong Kong University
Title: “Globalization and Promissory Representation.” American Journal of Political Science 68(1): 304-318. 2024.
Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
Award Committee: Rob Boatright, Clark University; Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University; Emilie van Haute, Free University of Brussels
Recipient: Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley; Boris Heersink, Fordham University; Didi Kuo, Stanford University
Recipient: Scott Mainwaring, Notre Dame University
Best APSA Paper Award
Award Committee: Petia Kostadinova, University of Illinois Chicago; Herschel Thomas, University of Texas at Austin; Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University
Recipients: Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University; Fiona Kniaz, Yale University; Amelia Malpas, Harvard University; Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley; Sam Zacher, Yale University
Title: “A Party Pulled Left? Organized Groups and Party Factions in the Contemporary Democratic Coalition.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
SECTION 6: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Paul Volker Junior Scholar Research Grant
Award Committee: Tia Sheree Gaynor, University of Minnesota; Brandi Blessett, University of Minnesota; Cullen Merritt, University of Maryland
Co-Recipients: Adeola Abilawon, West Virginia University; Tipeng Chen, Arizona State University; Yeonkyung Kim, Kean University; Rachel Kulikoff, University of Michigan; Kyuwoong Kyeong, Indiana University Bloomington; Emily Mee, Indiana University; Daniel Zorrilla Velazquez, University of Delaware
SECTION 7: CONFLICT PROCESSES
Best Paper by a Junior Scholar Award
Award Committee: Nils-Christian Bormann (Chair), Witten/Herdecke University; Roseanne McManus, Pennsylvania State University; Kai Quek, University of Hong Kong
Recipients: Michael Joseph, University of California, San Diego; Joon H. Chung, University of California, San Diego, Hui Seong Park
Title: “Do Elite Partisan Disagreements Degrade the Probability. Of Victory in War? Evidence from South Korean Military Battle Experiments.”
Best Paper by a Senior Scholar Award
Award Committee: Brandon Kinne (Chair), University of California, Davis; Livia Schubiger, ETH Zürich; Mehmet Gurses, Florida Atlantic University
Recipients: Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Merced; David Dow, Naval Postgraduate School; Alia Matanock, University of California, San Diego
Title: “The Design of Policing Institutions and Perceptions of the Police.”
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Elisabeth King (Chair), New York University; Paul Staniland, University of Chicago; Susanna Campbell, American University
Co-Recipient: Erik Lin-Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Rachel Myrick, Duke University
Title: Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Security. Princeton University Press, 2025.
SECTION 8: REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
George H. Hallett Award
Award Committee: Amel Ahmed (Chair), University of Massachusetts Amherst; Brian F. Crisp, Texas A&M University; Erik Herron, West Virginia University; Justin H. Kirkland, University of Virginia
Recipients: Christopher J. Anderson, London School of Economics and Political Science; André Blais, University of Montreal; Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside; Todd Donovan, Western Washington University; Ola Listhaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Title: Losers’ Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Lawrence Longley Award
Award Committee: Shane Singh (Chair), University of Georgia; Michael Hankinson, George Washington University; Liran Harsgor, University of Haifa; Saad Gulzar, University of Notre Dame; Simon Hix, European University Institute
Recipient: Tanushree Goyal, Princeton University
Title: “Local Political Representation as a Pathway to Power: A Natural Experiment in India.” American Journal of Political Science 69(2): 516-530. 2024.
SECTION 9: PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS
The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award
Award Committee: Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan (Chair); Jeffrey Crouch, American University; Lilly Goren, Carroll University; Karen Hult, Virginia Tech; Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston
Recipient: Julia Azari, Marquette University
Title: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History. Princeton University Press, 2025.
George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Zak Taylor (Chair), Georgia Institute of Technology; Julia Azari, Marquette University; Julian Michel, Hong Kong Baptist University
Recipient: Annie Benn, Colgate University
Title: “Unilateral Action Reconsidered: Congressional Responses to Presidential Directives.”
Founders Best Paper Award by PhD-holding Scholar
Award Committee: Christopher Carter (Chair), University of Virginia; Anna Callis, Tulane University; John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University; Justin Vaughn, Coastal Carolina University
Co-Recipients: Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas and Paul Collins, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: “Presidential References to Executive Actions in Public Comments on Supreme Court Cases.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Co-Recipient: Jakob Wiedekind, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: “Conditional Checks: Presidential Challenges, Congressional Resistance, and the Distribution of Success Across Unified and Divided Government.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Benjamin Goehring (Chair), University of Virginia; MaryAnne Borelli, Connecticut College; Nancy Kassop, State University of New York at New Paltz
Recipient: Julia Christensen, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “The Impact of Media Supply on Bureaucratic Information Collection.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: Brandice Canes-Wrone (Chair), Stanford University; Irwin Morris, North Carolina State University; James Pfiffner, George Mason University
Recipient: David Miller, American University
Legacy Award
Award Committee: David Lewis, Vanderbilt University; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; Amnon Cavari, Reichman University; Anne Pluta, Rowan University
Recipient: Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia
Title: The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal. Oxford University Press, 1993.
SECTION 11: RELIGION AND POLITICS
Hubert Morken Book Award
Award Committee: Nandini Deo (Chair), Lehigh University; Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University; John Compton, Chapman University
Recipient: Kate Baldwin, Yale University
Title: Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa. Cambridge University Press. 2025.
Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award
Award Committee: Levi Allen (Chair), Indiana State University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, George Washington University; Laura Olson, Texas Christian University
Recipient: Stephen Paul Lendway, Stanford University
Title: “Sermon Rhetoric and White Evangelical Support for the Republican Party.”
Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award
Award Committee: Jacob Neiheisel (Chair), State University of New York at Buffalo; Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame; Matthew H. Young, Elon University
Recipients: Taylor Boas, Boston University
Title: “Who Leads the Flock? Religion and the Radical Right Among Brazilian Migrants.” Politics and Religion 18: 1-21. 2025.
Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award
Award Committee: Anirvan Chowdhury (Chair), University of Louisville; Guadalupe Tunon, Princeton University; Mohammed Isaqzadeh, Chapman University
Recipients: Anil Menon, University of California, Merced and Alexander Persaud, University of Richmond
Title: “The Externalities of Missionary Activity: Tracing the Pre-independence Origins of Kerala’s Comparative Literacy Advantage.”
Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Vineeta Yadav (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Aala Abdelgadir, University of Pittsburgh; Michael Margolis, University of Cincinnati
Recipient: Danissa Contreras Guzman, University of Texas at Austin
Title: “The Rise of Religious Conservative Left in Latin America.”
SECTION 13: URBAN AND LOCAL POLITICS
Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award
Award Committee: Sarah F. Anzia, University of California, Berkeley; Tabitha Bonilla, Northwestern University; Michael Leo Owens, Emory University
Co-Recipient: Tyler Simko, University of Michigan
Co-Recipient: Laura Kettel, University of Greifswald
Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award
Award Committee: Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Harvard University; Sharon Denise Austin, University of Florida; Michael Hankinson, George Washington University
Recipient: Nick Brouwer, University of California, Merced
Title: “Political Institutions and Economic Development in the Context of State Development: Evidence from American Indian Tribal Governments.”
Clarence Stone Scholar Award
Award Committee: Andrea Gillespie, Emory University; Mirya Holman, University of Houston; Jeremy Wallace, Johns Hopkins University
Recipient: Jennifer Gaudette, University of California, Riverside
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Melissa A. Lyon, State University of New York at Albany; Matthew D. Nelsen, University of Miami; Elisa Wirsching, London School of Economics and Political Science
Recipient: Joshua Micah Ferrer, American University
Title: “Making Elections Happen: Accountability, Diversity, and Partisanship in US Election Administration.”
Dennis Judd Best Book Award
Award Committee: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University; Michael Fortner, Claremont McKenna College; Veronica Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles
Recipient: Kimberley Johnson, New York University
Title: Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Norton Long Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University; Sarah E. Reckhow, Michigan State University; Paru Shah, Rutgers University
Recipient: Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University
Clarence Stone Scholar Award
Award Committee: Andra Gillespie, Emory University; Mirya Holman, University of Houston; Jeremy Wallace, Johns Hopkins University
Recipient: Jennifer Gaudette, University of California, Riverside
Urban Affairs Review Best Paper on Urban and Regional Politics
Award Committee: Timothy Weaver, State University of New York at Albany; Christina Greer, Fordham University; Adrienne LeBas, American University
Recipient: Paige Bollen, Ohio State University
Title: “The Spatial Ties that Bind: Spatial Capital and Community Cooperation in Urban Ghana.”
SECTION 15: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Don K. Price Award
Award Committee: Matt Nowlin (Chair), University of Texas at Arlington; Tom Birkland, North Carolina State University; Nathan Jeschke, Florida Atlantic University
Recipients: Sanya Carley, University of Pennsylvania and David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington
Title: Power Lines: The Human Costs of American Energy in Transition. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
Award Committee: Geoboo Song (Chair), University of Arkansas; Jonathan Lewallen, University of Tampa; Raul Pacheco-Vega, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede México
Recipient: Amy Janzwood, McGill University
Title: Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance: Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure. University of British Columbia Press, 2025.
Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Tomás Olivier (Chair), Syracuse University; Guoer Liu, University of California, San Diego; Jesse Barnes, University of Texas at San Antonio
Recipient: Ishana Ratan, University of Mississippi
Title: “Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Investment and Development.”
Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Gwen Arnold (Chair), University of California, Davis; Christopher W. Blair, Princeton University; Andy Pattison, Colgate University
Recipient: Jerik Cruz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “World Wide Webs: How Migrant Networks and Porous Bureaucracies Forged the Knowledge Economy in the Global South.”
The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Barry Rabe (Chair), University of Michigan; Peter J. May, University of Washington; Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Recipient: Thomas A. Birkland, North Carolina State University
The Emerging Young Scholar Award
Award Committee: Tara Grillos (Chair), Purdue University; Chris Koski, Reed College; Rob DeLeo, Bentley University
Recipient: David Switzer, University of Missouri
Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Annemieke van den Dool (Chair), Duke Kushan University; Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kristin Oloffson, Colorado State University
Recipients: Miguel M. Pereira, London School of Economics and Political Science; Nathalie Giger, University of Geneva; Maria D. Perez, Independent Researcher; Kaya Axelsson, University of Oxford
Title: “Encouraging Politicians to Act on Climate: A field experiment with local officials in six countries.” American Journal of Political Science 69(1): 148-163. 2025.
STEP Graduate Student Inclusion Travel Grant
Award Committee: Kristin Taylor (Chair), Wayne State University and Elizabeth A. Koebele, University of Nevada, Reno
Recipient: Katelyn Nutley, University of St. Andrews
SECTION 16: WOMEN, GENDER, AND POLITICS RESEARCH
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Malliga Och (Chair), Denison University; Bhumi Purohit, Georgetown University; Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College; Anna Wilke, New York University; Natasha Altema-McNeely, University of North Texas
Recipient: Ana Sofia Elverdin, Washington and Lee University
Title: “The Cost of Success: Disenchantment After Partidization. Evidence from Contemporary Feminist Movements in Argentina.” Yale University, 2025.
Recipient: Ophelia Ekaterini Vedder, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “Gender Abolition.”
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Heather Ondercin (Chair), Appalachian State University; Gwenyth McClendon, New York University; Patrick Cunha Silva, Loyola University; Sydney Carr-Glenn, College of the Holy Cross
Recipient: Ashrakat Elshehawy, University College London
Title: “Missionaries on the Nile: Exposure to Protestant Missionaries and Women’s Developmental Outcomes and Social Norms.”
The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory
Award Committee: Agatha Slupek, University of Western Michigan; Mehwish Sarwari, State University of New York at Buffalo; Andrea S. Aldrich, Yale University
Recipient: Shatema Threadcraft, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Anti Black Violence and Toni Morrison’s Democratic Storytelling.” American Political Science Review 119(4): 1851-1863. 2025.
Best Paper on Race and Intersectionality Award
Award Committee: Lisa Vetter (Chair), University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Liza Mügge, University of Amsterdam; Heather Ondercin, Appalachian State University
Recipient: Julieta Valenzuela Correa, New York University
Title: “Motivating Support for Women’s Movements: Identity and Appeals.”
Politics & Gender Best Article Award
Award Committee: Kira Sanbonmatsu (Chair), Rutgers University; Lorna Bracewell, Flagler College; Meredith Loken, University of Amsterdam; Julieta Suarez-Cao, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Co-Recipient: Charlène Calderaro, University of Oxford
Title: “Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France.” Politics & Gender 21(4): 931-959. 2025.
Co-Recipient: Amy Gilmore, University of California, Irvine
Title: “Manning Humanitarian Programs: The Impossible Bargain of Refugee Men.” Politics & Gender 21(3): 488-508. 2025.
The WGPRS Public Engagement Award
Award Committee: Lahoma Thomas (Chair), Toronto Metropolitan University; Nora Balf, Indiana University Bloomington; Kelly Dittmar, Rutgers University-Camden
Recipient: Jennifer Piscopo, Royal Holloway, University of London
Microgrants
Award Committee: Melanie Hughes (Chair), University of Pittsburgh; Kaitlyn Sidorsky, Ramapo College of New Jersey; Maricruz Ariana Osorio, Bentley University; Monica Schneider, Miami University; Shannon Drysdale Walsh, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Co-Recipients: Jasmine English, Reed College; Songeun Emily Lee, University of Houston; Pin Lu, Rutgers University; Merima Tričić, University of California, Irvine; Fátima Ávila Acosta, Humboldt University; Layla Brooks, Emory University
SECTION 17: FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY
David Easton Award
Award Committee: Keally McBride, University of San Francisco; Melissa Lane, Princeton University; Bernard Yack, Brandeis University
Recipient: Roxanne Euben, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Driven to their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics. Princeton University Press, 2025.
First Book Award
Award Committee: Loren Goldman, University of Pennsylvania; Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware; Shatema Threadcraft, Vanderbilt University
Recipient: Michael Gorup, Ithaca College
Title: The Counterrevolutionary Shadow: Race, Democracy, and the Making of the American People. University of Kansas Press, 2025.
The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory
Award Committee: Agatha Slupek, University of Western Michigan; Mehwish Sarwari, State University of New York at Buffalo; Andrea S. Aldrich, Yale University
Recipient: Shatema Threadcraft, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Anti Black Violence and Toni Morrison’s Democratic Storytelling.” American Political Science Review 119(4): 1851-1863. 2025.
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Natasha Piano, University of California, Los Angeles; William Tilleczek, University of Montreal; Arwa Awan, Oberlin College
Recipient: Sophie Cardin, University of Oxford
Title: “Utopia and the History of Yiddish Political Thought.”
SECTION 18: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS
Best Conference Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section
Award Committee: Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich; Thomas Zeitzoff, American University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, George Washington University
Recipients: Kirill Chmel, Columbia University; Eunji Kim, Columbia University; John Marshall, Columbia University; Tiffany Fisher-Love, Incite Studio; Nathaniel Lubin, Harvard University
Title: “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics: A Field Experiment During the 2024 US Elections.”
Best Book in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section
Award Committee: Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Václav Štětka, Loughborough University; Benjamin Burley, Colorado State University
Recipient: Tamar Mitts, Columbia University
Title: Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Best Public Facing Scholarship in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section
Award Committee: Michael Bossetta, Lund University; Curd Knüpfer, University of South Denmark; Manu Singh Burson, Columbia University
Recipients: Daniel S. Schiff, Purdue University; Arne Bewersdorff, Technical University of Munich; Marie Hornberger, Technical University of Munich
Title: “AI literacy: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Who Needs It and Why It’s Hard to Define.” The Conversation, 2025.
Best Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Yilin Su, University College London; Camila Mont’Alverne, University of Strathclyde; Allison Ko, State University of New York at Buffalo
Recipient: Shun Yamaya, Stanford University
Title: “How Did the Internet Change Campaign Fundraising?”
Best Journal of Information Technology and Politics Article Award
Award Committee: Lindsay Hoffman, University of Delaware; Daniel Muise, Screenlake; Augusto Valeriani, University of Bologna; Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University
Recipients: Lisa P. Argyle, Brigham Young University; Ethan C. Busby, Brigham Young University; Joshua R. Gubler, Brigham Young University; Alex Lyman, Brigham Young University; Justin Olcott, Brigham Young University; Jackson Pond, Brigham Young University; David Wingate, Brigham Young University
Title: “Testing theories of political persuasion using AI.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 18: 2025.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: William Schulz, Stanford University; Rosalynd Southern, University of Liverpool; Shri Raviv, Tel Aviv University; Eddie Yang, Purdue University
Recipient: Hanna Sistek, Purdue University
Title: “Structural Incentives for Politicians to Manipulate Domestic Opinions.” 2025.
SECTION 20: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Sage Paper Prize
Award Committee: Adam Auerbach (Chair), Yale University; Aala Abdelgadir, University of Pittsburgh; Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville
Recipient: Gabriel Leon-Ablan, University College London
Title: “Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire.”
Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award
Award Committee: Dan Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles; Nick Carnes, Duke University; Jessica Gottlieb, University of Houston
Recipients: Martha Wilfahrt, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Atlas of 19th c. African States.”
Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars
Award Committee: David Samuels, University of Minnesota; Vicky Murillo, Columbia University; Zach Elkins, University of Texas at Austin
Recipient: Vicente Valentim, IE University
Luebbert Best Article Prize
Award Committee: Rafaela Dancygier (Chair), Princeton University; Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland; Rachel Beatty Riedl, Cornell University; Anne Meng, University of Virginia
Recipients: Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University; Kolby Hanson, Wesleyan University; Aliz Tóth, London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: “Bridging the Gulf: How Migration Fosters Tolerance, Cosmopolitanism, and Support for Globalization.” American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 813-830. 2025.
Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology
Award Committee: Miriam Golden (Chair), Stanford University; Eric Dickson, New York University; Natalia Garbiras-Diaz, Harvard University
Recipients: Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) Metaketa Initiative
Bingham Powell Mentoring Award
Award Committee: Amanda Robinson (Chair), Ohio State University; Evan Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Erik Bleich, Middlebury College
Recipient: Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Merced
SECTION 21: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Sara Watson, Ohio State University; Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton; Deborah Boucoyannis, George Washington University
Recipient: Zeynep Ozgen, New York University Abu Dhabi
Title: Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Amel Ahmad, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Hannah Alarian, College of William & Mary; Thomas König, University of Mannheim
Recipient: Marko Kljajic, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “The Victimhood Trap and the Promise of Mutual Acknowledgment.”
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Hanno Hilbig, University of California, Davis; Mabel Berezin, Cornell University; Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin
Recipients: Stephanie Zonszein, University of California, Berkeley and Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Voted in, standing out: Public response to immigrants’ political accession.” American Journal of Political Science 69(2): 718-733. 2025.
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Diane Bolet, University of Essex; Jan Vogler, Aarhus University; Bjørn Høyland, University of Oslo
Recipient: Hanna Folsz, Stanford University
Title: “Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality”
SECTION 22: STATE POLITICS AND POLICY
Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Chris Witko (Chair), University of California, Sacramento; Justin Phillips, Columbia University; Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
Recipient: Daniel Smith, University of Florida
Virginia Gray Book Award
Award Committee: John Cluverius (Chair), University of Massachusetts Lowell; Cassidy Reller, University of Florida; Adam Myers, Providence College
Recipients: Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz and Chris Koski, Reed College
Title: Means, Motives, and Opportunities: How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize
Award Committee: Jenny Wolak (Chair), Michigan State University; Beth Reingold, Emory University; Michael Auslen, University of Texas at Austin
Recipient: Benjamin Goehring, University of Virginia
Title: “The States of American Bureaucracy.”
State Politics and Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Daniel Bowen (Chair), The College of New Jersey; Justin Crofoot, Pennsylvania State University; Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University
Recipients: Aksel Sundstrom, University of Gothenburg; Charles T. McClean, Yale University; Daniel Stockemer, University of Ottawa
Title: “Youth Representation and Democratic Legitimacy.”
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Daniel Bowen (Chair), The College of New Jersey; Justin Crofoot, Pennsylvania State University; Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University
Co-Recipient: Ayoung Chun, Purdue University
Title: “Bundled Power: How Donors Value Procedural Powers in US State Legislature.”
Co-Recipient: Angie Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Relief or Reform? Federal Crisis Funds and the State-Level Politics of Debt Restructuring.”
Best Journal Article Award
Award Committee: Laura Bucci (Chair), Saint Joseph’s University; Seth Warner, University of Connecticut; Nick Howard, Concordia College
Recipients: Peter Bucchianeri, Center for Effective Lawmaking; Craig Volden, University of Virginia; Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Legislative Effectiveness in the American States.” American Political Science Review 119(1): 21-39. 2025.
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: Chris Witko (Chair), University of California, Sacramento; Justin Phillips, Columbia University; Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
Recipient: Mary Kroeger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Service Award
Award Committee: Jon Winburn (Chair), University of Mississippi; Jennifer Gaudette, University of California, Riverside; Joshua Basseches, Tulane University
Recipient: Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Maryland
Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award
Award Committee: Rebecca Gill (Chair), University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jack Santucci, George Washington University; Jennie Sweet-Cushman, Chatham University
Recipients: Jeffrey R. Lax, Columbia University and Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University
Title: “The Democratic Deficit in the States.” American Journal of Political Science 56(1): 148-166. 2012.
SECTION 23: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award
Award Committee: Yungkang Yang (Chair), Texas A&M University; Stephanie Burkhalter, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt; Paul Lendway, Stanford University; Andrew Trexler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Recipients: Yochai Benkler, Harvard University; Robert Faris, Harvard University; Hal Roberts, Harvard University
Title: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Jasmine English (Chair), Reed College; Mike Cowburn, Zeppelin University; Fabian Neuner, Arizona State University; Ant Woodall, Northeastern University
Recipients: Eunji Kim, Columbia University and Erin York, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Unexpected Voices: How Cultural Agents Reshape Political Communication.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Rex Deng (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis; Allison Archer, University of Houston; David A. Beavers, Harvard University; Sean Ewing, Florida Gulf Coast University
Recipient: Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “It Bleeds, It Doesn’t (Mis)lead: How Tone Shapes the Belief and Spread of Political (Mis)information.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Zirui Tony Yang (Chair), Emory University; Jessica Feezell, University of New Mexico; Josephine Lukito, University of Texas at Austin; Martha Stolze, Weizenbaum Institute
Recipient: Andrew Trexler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Public Demand for a More Informative Press.” Duke University, 2025.
Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award
Award Committee: Alessandro Nai (Chair), University of Amsterdam; Leonard Memon, University of Texas at Austin; André Rodarte, University of Southern Denmark; Sierra Davis Thomander, Stanford University
Recipients: Jon Green, Duke University; Stefan McCabe, George Washington University; Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University; Hanyu Chwe, Northeastern University; Luke Horgan, Northeastern University; Shuyang Cao, University of Michigan; David Lazer, Northeastern University
Title: “Curation Bubbles.” American Political Science Review 119(4): 1704-1722. 2025.
Excellence in Political Communication Mentoring Award
Award Committee: Emily Sydnor (Chair), Syracuse University; Lisa Argyle, Purdue University; Michael Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota
Recipient: Kathy Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
SECTION 24: POLITICS AND HISTORY
David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Robinson Woodward-Burns (Chair), Howard University; Rutger Ceballos, University of Oregon; Maya Tudor, University of Oxford
Co-Recipients: Robin Harding, University of Oxford; Tugba Bozcaga, King’s College London; Arinze Nwoklo, Lagos Business School
Title: “Putting Property Rights in Context: Colonial Cotton Concessions, Customary Land Tenure, and Development in Mozambique.”
Co-Recipient: Gabriel Leon-Ablan, King’s College London
Title: “Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire.”
SECTION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY
McGillivray Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Livio Di Lonardo (Chair), Bocconi University
Recipients: Gemma Dipoppa, Columbia University and Annalise Pezone, New York University
Title: “The Logic of State Surveillance.”
Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Lewis Luartz (Chair); Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley; John Patty, Emory University
Recipient: Valentina González-Rostani, University of Southern California
Title: “Political-Economic Polarization.” University of Pittsburgh, 2024.
William H. Riker Book Award
Award Committee: Clara Suong (Chair), Virginia Tech
Recipient: Jenny Guardado, Georgetown University
Title: The Venal Origins of Underdevelopment in Spanish America. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
SECTION 27: CRITICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award
Award Committee: C. Heike Schotten (Chair), University of Massachusetts Boston and Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College
Recipient: Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE)
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Joseph G. Peschek (Chair), Hamline University and Kenton Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College
Recipient: Adam Przeworski, New York University (Emeritus)
Michael Harrington Book Award
Award Committee: Biko Koenig (Chair), Franklin and Marshall College; Sarah Surak, Salisbury University (Emerita); Laura Olson, Lehigh University
Recipient: John Hultgren, Bennington College
Title: The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2025.
Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Ricardo Vega León (Chair), Rutgers University and Dan Jacob, Rutgers University
Recipient: John Paul Belk, University of London
Title: “Puerto Rico’s Neoliberal Turn: The Crisis of Developmentalism, Hegemonic Ideas, and Colonial Politics.”
SECTION 28: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Robert E. Lane Book Award
Award Committee: Love Christensen, University of Gothenburg; Erin Cassese, University of Delaware; Brian Guay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Recipients: Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University and Kelly Patterson, Brigham Young University
Title: The Politics of Individualism. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Nathan Skigin, University of Georgia; Alexa Bankert, University of Georgia; Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary
Recipient: Joshua R. Thorp, University of Arkansas
Title: “Body Politic: Disability and Political Cohesion.” University of Michigan.
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Jasmine English, Reed College; Elizabeth Simas, Texas A&M University; Jessica Gottlieb, University of Houston
Recipients: Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate Institute; Marcel Roman, Harvard University; Benjamin Newman, University of California, Riverside
Title: “The Immigration-to-Reproduction Shift: Latino Population Growth and White Support for Legal Abortion.”
Distinguished Junior Scholar Award
Award Committee: Yphtach Lelkes, University of Pennsylvania and Rongbo Jin, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-Recipients: Eunji Kim, Columbia University; Christine M. Slaughter, Boston University; Paul Lendway, Stanford University; Nicolas Campos, University of Minnesota; Eddy S. F. Yeung, University of Oxford
SECTION 29: POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
The Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship
Award Committee: Elizabeth Dorssom, Lincoln University and Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Recipient: Daniel Smith, University of Florida
The Best APSA Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Justin Lance, Presbyterian College
Recipients: Charles C. Turner, California State University, Chico; Audrey B. Thao, California State University, Chico; Ginny Adorador, California State University, Chico
Title: “Generative AI, Academic Integrity, and Introductory American Government: Can We Rebuild What You Destroy?”
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Award Committee: J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Charley Turner, California State University, Chico; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Diana Owen, Georgetown University; Daniel Mallinson, Penn State Harrisburg; Young Im Lee, California State University, Sacramento; Elizabeth Dorssom, Lincoln University; Josue Franco, Cuyamaca Community College
Recipient: Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego
The Distinguished Service Award
Award Committee: J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Charley Turner, California State University, Chico; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Diana Owen, Georgetown University; Daniel Mallinson, Penn State Harrisburg; Young Im Lee, California State University, Sacramento; Elizabeth Dorssom, Lincoln University; Josue Franco, Cuyamaca Community College
Recipients: Matthew J. Evans (Editor), Northwest Arkansas Community College and Colin Brown (Assistant Editor), Northeastern University
Title: “Political Science Educator,” APSA Educate.
Best New SoTL Book Award
Award Committee: Petra Hendrickson (Chair), Northern Michigan University; Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Parami University; Devon Cantwell-Chaves, University of Copenhagen; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University
Co-Recipients: Edward F. Kammerer Jr., Idaho State University; Royal G. Cravens III, California Polytechnic State University; Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College
Title: Teaching LGBTQ Politics. State University of New York Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
Title: Teaching Experimental Political Science. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
SECTION 31: FOREIGN POLICY
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Chad Nelson (Chair), Brigham Young University; Kelsey Larsen, University of Central Florida; Kelly Matush, Florida State University
Recipient: Andrés Schelp, Northwestern University
Title: “Swaying the Graders? The Politics of Global Democratic Assessments: The Freedom in the World Report and the US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.”
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Christine Sixta Rinehart (Chair), University of South Carolina; Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong; Melissa Willard-Foster, University of Vermont
Co-Recipient: Erik Lin-Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Remote Revolution. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Dan Reiter, Emory University
Title: Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
SECTION 32: ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR
Philip E. Converse Book Award
Award Committee: Zeynep Somer-Topcu (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Sierra Davis, Stanford University; Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton; Hans Hassell, Chapman University
Recipient: Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: Tyler Reny (Chair), Claremont Graduate University; Holli Semetko, Emory University; Wade Marsh, University of Tennessee
Recipient: Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Jennifer Wolak (Chair), Michigan State University; Elizabeth Elder, Stanford University; Nic Dias, Aarhus University
Recipients: Christopher L. Carter, University of Virginia and Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: “Democratizing Political Parties: Experiences of Political Participation and Efficacy.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Best Article in Political Behavior
Award Committee: Mike Cowburn (Chair), Zeppelin University; Debra Leiter, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Scott Matthews, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Recipients: Andrew Trexler, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher D. Johnston, Duke University
Title: “An Ideology by Any Other Name.” Political Behavior 47(1): 385-409. 2025.
John Sullivan Award
Award Committee: Todd Makse (Chair), Florida International University; Raquel Centeno, California Institute of Technology; Michal Grahn, Uppsala University; Nathan Micatka, University of South Alabama
Recipient: Hanna Folsz, Stanford University
Title: “Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Warren E. Miller Prize
Award Committee: Mollie Cohen (Chair), Purdue University; Rongbo Jin, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Elizabeth Connors, University of South Carolina
Recipient: James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis
SECTION 33: RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS
Best Paper in Racial and Ethnic Politics Award
Award Committee: Christina Greer, Fordham University; Jongwoo Jeong, Georgia State University; Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate Institute
Recipient: Michael Strawbridge, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “This Is How We Do: African American Culture, Political Learning, and Black Democratic Partisanship.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Best Book in Race, Ethnicity and Public Policy Award
Award Committee: Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida; Candis Watts Smith, Duke University; Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University
Recipient: Kirstine Taylor, Ohio University
Title: Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Best Book in Race, Ethnicity and Representation Award
Award Committee: Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida; Candis Watts Smith, Duke University; Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University
Recipient: Tanika Raychaudhuri, Rice University
Title: The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship: From Political Learning to Partisan Leanings. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Best Book in Race, Ethnicity and Justice Award
Award Committee: Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida; Candis Watts Smith, Duke University; Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University
Recipients: Joshua Page, University of Minnesota and Joe Soss, University of Minnesota
Title: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Best Book in Race, Ethnicity and Identity Award
Award Committee: Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida; Candis Watts Smith, Duke University; Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University
Recipient: Kimberly Johnson, New York University
Title: Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism & the American Metropolis. Cornell University Press, 2025.
SECTION 34: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS
Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
Award Committee: James Ashley Morrison, London School of Economics and Political Science; Elizabeth Ingleson, London School of Economics and Political Science; Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recipient: Patricia Owens, University of Oxford
Title: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics
Award Committee: Onur Ulas Ince, SOAS University of London; Joanne Yao, Queen Mary University of London; Şener Aktürk, Koç University
Recipients: Jack Paine, Emory University; Xiaoyan Qiu, Washington University in St. Louis; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland
Title: “Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa.” American Political Science Review 119(1): 1-20. 2025.
SECTION 35: DEMOCRACY AND AUTOCRACY
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford; Edward Goldring, University of Melbourne; Alexandra Siegel, University of Colorado Boulder
Recipient: Daniel Tavana, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Endogenous opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics.” American Journal of Political Science 70(2): 623-642. 2026.
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University; Paul Schuler, University of Arizona; Jonathan Chu, National University of Singapore
Co-Recipients: Edmund Cheng, City University of Hong Kong and Samson Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Title: The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Killian Clarke, Georgetown University
Title: Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Best Fieldwork Award
Award Committee: Marwa Shalaby, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Yale University; Bardia Rahmani, Harvard University
Recipient: Narmin Yousef-Butt, Princeton University
Title: “Rebuilding After Conflict: Origins and Legacies of Collaboration”
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Joan Timoneda, Purdue University; Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University; Eddy Yeung, University of Oxford
Recipient: Ye Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Political Control in the Workplace: How Autocracies Discipline Workers Without Distorting Firm Behavior.”
Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Jean LaChapelle, University of Montreal; Andres Uribe, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anna Callis, Lafayette College
Co-Recipient: Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd, University of Oxford
Title: “Authoritarian Renewal and Legitimation in Saudi Arabia.”
Co-Recipient: Eddy Yeung, University of Oxford
Title: “Propaganda as provocation: How autocrats use political rhetoric to impede democratic uprisings.”
SECTION 36: HUMAN RIGHTS
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Michael Ben-Josef Hirsch (Chair), Suffolk University; Petra Hendrickson, Northern Michigan University; Phillip Ayoub, University College London; Ezgi Yildiz, Bowdoin College; Kristina Stoeckl, LUISS University
Recipients: Sarah Sunn Bush, University of Pennsylvania and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University
Title: Crowded Out: The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary NGOs. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Pelekeh H. Tapang (Chair), York University; Hannah M. Ridge, Chapman University; Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University; Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford; Bi Zhao, Gonzaga University
Recipients: Daniel Edler Duarte, State University of Rio de Janeiro; Jonathan Havercroft, University of Glasgow; Susan L. Kang, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Title: “Grounded Normative Theory and Protest: Challenging Philosophical Assumptions about Civil Disobedience and the Punishment Proviso.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Eugene Richard Sensenig (Chair), Sankt Ignatios College; Gino Pauselli, University of Illinois; Isabel G. Laterzo, University of Texas at Austin; Ñusta Carranza Ko, University of Baltimore; Roby Linde, Rhode Island College
Recipient: Madeleine Inez Stevens, University of Chicago
Title: “Weaponizing Uncertainty: The Politics of Disappearance in Latin America.” University of Chicago, 2025.
SECTION 37: QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH
Alexander L. George Article Award
Award Committee: Yuen Yuen Ang (Chair), Johns Hopkins University; Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University; John Boswell, University of Southampton
Recipients: Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins University and Jonas Bergan Draege, Oslo New University College
Title: “Film-Making the Nation Great Again: Audio-Visualizing History in the Authoritarian Toolkit.” Perspectives on Politics Published Online: 1-33. 2025.
Giovanni Sartori Book Award
Award Committee: Janice Gallagher (Chair), Rutgers University-Newark; Lauren Honig, Boston College; Aditi Malik, College of the Holy Cross
Recipient: Natalie Wenzell Letsa, University of South Carolina
Title: The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Kendra Koivu Paper Award
Award Committee: Juan Bogliaccini (Chair), Universidad Católica del Uruguay; Rodrigo Barrenechea, Universidad del Pacífico; Benjamin García Holgado, University of Delaware
Recipient: Andrew O’Donohue, Harvard University
Title: “Law versus Democracy: Judicial Selection Institutions, Court Capture, and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Sara Niedzwiecki (Chair), University of California, Santa Cruz; Yanilda González, Harvard University; Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University
Recipient: Fernando Rosenblatt, University of Manchester
Politics of Marginalization and Inclusion Award
Award Committee: Brian Palmer-Rubin (Chair), University of Southern California; Santiago Anria, Cornell University; Chris Chambers-Ju, University of Texas at Arlington
Recipient: Isabel M. Perera, Cornell University
Title: The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Healthcare Varies Across Affluent Democracies. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Qualitative Evidence Award
Award Committee: Nermin Allam (Chair), Rutgers University-Newark; Kacie Miura, University of San Diego; Kai Thaler, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recipient: Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins University
Title: “Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes: Recipe for (New) Turkey.” Politics & Gender. Published Online: 1-30. 2025.
SECTION 38: SEXUALITY AND POLITICS
The Donald Haider-Markel Best Book Award
Award Committee: Patrick Miller, Kent State University; Philip M. Ayoub, University College London; Callen Hummel, University of British Columbia
Recipient: Julie Moreau, University of Toronto
Title: After Equality: LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Best LGBTQ Politics Award
Award Committee: Melissa Michelson, Menlo College; Andrew Flores, American University; Joanna Wuest, Stony Brook University
Recipients: Meredith L. Weiss, State University of New York at Albany
Title: “Scapegoating Queers: Pink-blocking as State Strategy.” Current Sociology 73(5): 695-713. 2025.
Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Gabriele Magni, Loyola Marymount University; Scott Siegel, California State University, San Francisco; Charmaine Willis, Old Dominion University
Recipients: Aylon Cohen, University of Oxford
Title: “Ways of Unbecoming Men: Trans Panic, Trans Practice, and the Formation of Manhood Equality.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Sexuality & Politics Lasting Contribution Award
Award Committee: Cyril Ghosh, Clark University; Sara Angevine, Whittier College; Justin Philips, Columbia University
Recipients: Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago
SECTION 39: HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY
Leonard S. Robins Award for the Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy
Award Committee: Eric Patashnik, Brown University; Caitlin McMurtry, Washington University in St. Louis; Ling Zhu, University of Houston
Recipient: Tiago Tasca, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: “When Capacity Is Not Enough: Political Incentives and the Selective Activation of Preventive Health in Brazil.”
Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award
Award Committee: Renu Singh, Durham University; Scott Greer, University of Michigan; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Carmen Ho, University of Guelph; Lauren Peterson, University of Chicago
Co-Recipient: Miranda Yaver, University of Pittsburgh
Co-Recipient: Jonathan Oberlander, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Excellence in Mentoring Award
Award Committee: Renu Singh, Durham University; Scott Greer, University of Michigan; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Carmen Ho, University of Guelph; Lauren Peterson, University of Chicago
Recipient: Holly Jarman, University of Michigan
SECTION 41: POLITICAL NETWORKS
The Political Ties Award
Award Committee: Mark Lubell (Chair), University of California, Davis; Jennifer Larson, Vanderbilt University; Dotan Haim, Florida State University
Recipient: J Andrés Gannon, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security.” American Journal of Political Science Early View. 2025.
Best Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Anand Sokhey (Chair), University of Colorado; Max Gallop, University of Strathclyde; Ted Hsuan Chen, George Mason University
Recipient: Howard Liu, University of South Carolina
Title: “Keeping it Secret: Surveillance, Informant Networks, and the Protection of Informants in Authoritarian Regimes.”
John Sprague Award
Award Committee: Casey Dorff (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Aidan Miliff, Florida State University; Claudia Zucca, Tilburg University
Recipient: Kadir Cihan Duran, Pennsylvania State University
Title: “Graph Neural Networks for Inferential Network Analysis.”
SECTION 42: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Natán Skigin, University of Georgia; Natalia Bueno, Emory University; Diane Bolet, Sciences Po
Recipient: Deepika Padmanabhan, Harvard University
Title: “Everyday Language: Navigating the State and the Nation in Southern India.” Harvard University, 2025.
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Sumitra Badrinathan, American University; Chagai Weiss, University of Toronto; Talbot Andrews, Cornell University
Recipients: Kirill Chmel, Columbia University; Eunji Kim, Columbia University; John Marshall, Columbia University; Tiffany Fisher-Love, Incite Studio; Nathaniel Lubin, Harvard University
Title: “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics: A Field Experiment During the 2024 US Elections.”
Best Book Award
Award Committee: William G. Nomikos, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ethan Busby, Brigham Young University; Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University
Recipient: Mia Costa, Dartmouth College
Title: How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article
Award Committee: Jennifer Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam
Recipients: Amber Hye-Yon Lee, Consumer Finance Institute within the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University
Title: “Same-Sex Schooling, Political Participation, and Gender Attitudes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 12(3): 295-306. 2025.
Best Article with a Pre-Registration Plan in JEPS
Award Committee: Jennifer Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam
Recipients: Diogo Ferrari, University of California, Riverside and Brianna A. Smith, United States Naval Academy
Title: ”Status Threat, Partisanship, and Voters’ Conservative Shift Toward Right-Wing Candidates." Journal of Experimental Political Science 12(3): 324-338. 2025.
Best Replication in JEPS Award
Award Committee: Jennifer Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam
Recipients: Kiril Zhirkov, University of Virginia; Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Boston College; C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota
Title: “Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 12(1): 126-133. 2025.
Public Service Award
Award Committee: Jake Bowers, University of Illinois; Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania; Kathleen Searles, University of South Carolina
Recipient: Vineet Kapoor, Indian Police Service
SECTION 43: MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Anthony Messina (Chair), Trinity College; Eiko Thielemann, London School of Economics and Political Science; Emma Empociello, Tufts University
Recipient: Alexander Kustov, University of Notre Dame
Title: In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular. Columbia University Press, 2025.
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Rahsaan Maxwell (Chair), New York University; Alexander Kustov, University of Notre Dame; Eroll Kuhn, Sam Houston State University
Co-Recipient: Hannah Alarian, University of Florida
Title: “Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union.” Journal of Politics 87(4): 1559-1572. 2025.
Co-Recipient: Stephanie Zonszein, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Turn on, tune in, turn out: Ethnic radio and immigrants’ political engagement.” American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 1128-1146. 2025.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Louis DeSipio (Chair), University of California, Irvine; Ayca Arkilic, Victoria University of Wellington; Amanda von Koppenfels, University of Kent
Recipient: Rohini Mitra, University of Bonn
Title: “Navigating (In)visibility: Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Fragmented Governance in India.”
Best Graduate Student Paper
Award Committee: Maarten Vink (Chair), European University Institute; Daniel Szabo, Independent Researcher; Hanno Hilbig, University of California, Davis
Recipient: Andrea C. Caflisch, University College London
Title: “Local Security Provision and Return from Forced Displacement: Evidence from South Sudan.”
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: Kamal Sadiq (Chair), University of California, Irvine; Allan Colbern, Arizona State University; Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Recipient: Dr. William L. Allen, University of Southampton
Career Achievement Award
Award Committee: Noora Lori (Chair), Boston University; Claire Adida, Stanford University; Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham
Recipient: Anthony Messina, Trinity College (Emeritus)
SECTION 45: CLASS AND INEQUALITY
Best Paper on Class & Inequality
Award Committee: Kristin Goss, Duke University; Elizabeth Thom, Northwestern University; Jieun Park, Concordia College
Recipient: Serena Laws, Trinity College
Title: “Where’s My Refund?: Mechanisms for Policy Feedback for the Earned Income Tax Credit.”
Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality
Award Committee: Dan Galvin, Northwestern University; Anthony Grasso, Rutgers University; Erica Townsend-Bell, Oklahoma State University
Recipient: Emily Russell, Stanford University
Title: “Policing the Plantation: Repressive Institutions and Labor Control in Assam, India.”
Best Book on Class and Inequality
Award Committee: James Morone, Brown University; Christine Slaughter, Boston University; Gregory Saxton, Texas Tech University
Recipient: Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes. Princeton University Press, 2025.
SECTION 46: IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS
Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge and Politics Award
Award Committee: Emma Rodman, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Jarrod Hayes, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Shterna Friedman, Harvard University; Erik Jones, European University Institute
Recipient: Alejandro Esguerra, Bielefeld University
Title: The Politics of Beginning: The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation. University of Michigan Press, 2025.
SECTION 47: AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Award Committee: Susan McWilliams Barndt (Chair), Pomona College & Claremont McKenna College; Jeremy Bailey, University of Florida; Keidrick Roy, Dartmouth College; Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Recipient: James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Emily Pears (Chair), Claremont McKenna College; Keidrick Roy, Dartmouth College; Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Recipient: Noah Eber-Schmid, Indian University
Title: Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Laura K. Field, American University, George Washington University, and the Brookings Institute
Title: Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Jeremy Bailey (Chair), University of Florida; Stephen Goniprow, Hillsdale College; Kathleen Sullivan, Ohio University
Recipient: Austin Nelson, University of Texas at Austin
Title: “America’s Bankrupt Constitution: Contract Rights, Insolvent Debtors, and the Foundations of American Federalism.”
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Gianna Englert (Chair), University of Florida; Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College & Claremont McKenna College; Jack Greenberg, Trinity College
Recipient: Connor M. Ewing, University of Toronto
Title: “Trapped by Time?: The Democratic Dilemmas of the Dead Hand.”
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Charles Zug (Chair), University of Missouri; Jacob Little, Duke University; Calvin TerBeek, Claremont McKenna College
Recipients: Christopher Woods, Brown University
Title: “The Original Conservative Legal Movement: Joseph Story’s Long War on Juries and Abolitionists (1805-1845).” American Political Thought 14(3): 381-413. 2025.
SECTION 48: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Terrence Chapman (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Noah Zucker, Princeton University; Christoph Mikulaschek, Harvard University
Recipients: Calvin Thrall, Columbia University
Title: “Informational lobbying and commercial diplomacy.” American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 1147-1162. 2025.
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Ryan Powers (Chair), University of Georgia; Averell Schmidt, Cornell University; Sonal Pandya, University of Virginia
Recipient: Oren Samet, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Challenging Autocrats Abroad: Opposition Parties on the International Stage.”
Best Book Award
Award Committee: Geoffrey Wallace (Chair), University of Washington; Rochelle Terman, University of Chicago; Lindsay Dolan, Wesleyan University; Clara Park, Duke University
Recipient: Rachel Myrick, Duke University
Title: Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Distinguished Mentor Award
Award Committee: Christina Schneider (Chair), University of California, San Diego and Susanna Campbell, American University
Recipient: Christina Davis, Harvard University
SECTION 49: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA POLITICS
Best Book on MENA Politics
Award Committee: Steven Hydemann (Chair), Smith College; Diana Greenwald, City College of New York; Rachel Brown, University of Washington in St. Louis
Recipient, Best Book by a Junior Scholar: Rana Khoury, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: Civilizing Contention. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Recipient, Best Book by a Senior Scholar: Utku Balaban, Xavier University
Title: Industrial Islamism. University of California Press, 2025.
Best MENA Politics Article
Award Committee: Fiona Adamson (Chair), SOAS University of London, Amir Reda, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Kevin Mazur, King’s College London
Recipients: Allison S. Hartnett, University of Southern California and Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: “Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power.” American Political Science Review 119(4): 1723-1741. 2025.
Best Dissertation on MENA Politics
Award Committee: Killian Clark (Chair), Georgetown University; Ahmed Mohamed Ezzedine, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University
Recipient: Ronay Bakan, European University Institute
Title: “Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Weaponizing Land and Heritage in the Kurdish Region of Turkey.” Johns Hopkins University, 2025.
Best MENA Politics APSA Paper
Award Committee: Carolyn Barnett (Chair), University of Arizona; Amir Reda, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University; Kevin Mazur, King’s College London
Recipients: Efe Tokdemir, Bilkent University; Asli Cansunar, University of Washington; Arzu Kibris, University of Warwick
Title: “Ethnic Cues and Conflict-Triggered Harassment: Evidence from Soccer Fields.”
SECTION 50: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Established Leader Award
Award Committee: J. Cherie Strachan (Chair), University of Akron; Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University South Bend; Mary McHugh, Merrimack College
Recipient: Chapman Rackaway, Radford University
Outstanding Civic Engagement Project
Award Committee: Elizabeth Dorssom (Chair), Lincoln University; Dang Do, Trinity College; Rachel Houson, Texas Christian University; Diana Owen, Georgetown University
Co-Recipient: Chapman Rackaway, Radford University
Co-Recipient: Amanda Wintersieck, Virginia Commonwealth University
Best Paper Award
Award Committee: Austin Trantham (Chair), Saint Leo University; Stephanie Chan, Lafayette College; Kevin G. Lorentz II, Saginaw Valley State University; Frank Reichert, University of Hong Kong
Recipients: Hannah Walker, University of Texas at Austin; Ariel White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tyler Ludwig, University of Texas at Austin; Allison P. Harris, Yale University
Title: “Bridges to the Ballot: How loved ones can mobilize voters with criminal records.”
Emerging Scholar Award
Award Committee: Chapman Rackaway (Chair), Radford University; Diana Da In Lee, Vanderbilt University; William O’Brochta, Texas Lutheran University
Recipient: Elizabeth Jordie Davies, University of California, Irvine
SECTION 51: EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY
Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation
Award Committee: Julia Coyoli, University of Strathclyde; Rebecca Jacobsen, Michigan State University; Paul Manna, College of William & Mary
Recipient: Samuel Williams, University of California, San Diego
Title: “Politics in the Classroom: Student Responses to Contested Curriculum.”
Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy
Award Committee: R. Shep Melnick, Boston College and J. Celeste Lay, Tulane University
Co-Recipient: Xin Xiang, Beijing Normal University
Title: Unequal Learning: Education and Society in Contemporary China. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Co-Recipient: Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University
Title: No Adult Left Behind: How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and Policy
Award Committee: Tyler Simko, University of Michigan and Mirya Holman, University of Houston
Co-Recipient: Maranda Joyce, Rice University
Title: “Homeschooling as Racial Retreat.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
Co-Recipient: Laura Howells, Princeton University
Title: “When Linguistic Removal Engenders Belonging.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
SECTION 52: FORMAL THEORY
Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar Award
Award Committee: Hülya Eraslan, Rice University; Justin Fox, Washington University in St. Louis; German Gieczewski, Princeton University; Bahar Leventoglu, Duke University
Recipient: Elaine Yao, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “Brook No Compromise: How to Negotiate a United Front.” American Journal of Political Science 70(2): 643-657. 2026.
Best Article Award
Award Committee: Avidit Acharya, Stanford University; Arjada Bardhi, New York University; Susan Hyde, University of California, Berkeley; Arturas Rozenas, New York University
Recipients: Brenton Kenkel, Vanderbilt University and Peter Schram, Vanderbilt University
Title: “Uncertainty in crisis bargaining with multiple policy options.” American Journal of Political Science 69(1): 194-209. 2025.
Best APSA Paper Award
Award Committee: Peter Buisseret, Harvard University; Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology; Branislav Slantchev, University of California, San Diego; Elaine Yao, Washington University in St. Louis
Recipients: Zanhui Liu, Tsinghua University; Zhaotian Luo, University of Chicago; Yucheng Qiu, Peking University; Shuyi Yu, University of Chicago
Title: “A Relational Theory of Power Alternation.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
SECTION 53: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Eun A Jo, College of William & Mary; Michelle Murray, Bard College; William Nomikos, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recipient: Stephanie Char, Columbia University
Title: “Scaring the Monkey by Killing the Chicken: Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion by China.”
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Award Committee: Mark Raymond, University of Oklahoma; Adam Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Adrian Calmettes, Ohio State University
Recipient: Cameron Macaskill, Ohio State University
Title: “Everyday Reimagining and Reordering of Global Politics: Conceptualizing Anti-Colonial World making from Below.”
SECTION 54: AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Best Dissertation on Political Economy Award
Award Committee: Trellace Lawrimore (Chair), New York University; Miranda Yaver, University of Pittsburgh; Andrew McCall, Columbia University
Recipient: Elizabeth Thom, Northwestern University
Title: “Withering on the Vine: Lessons from Extractive Industry Decline.” Harvard University, 2025.
Best Paper in American Political Economy Award
Award Committee: Stephanie Ternullo (Chair), Harvard University; Liz Suhay, American University; John Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego
Recipients: Gautam Nair, Harvard Kennedy School; Owen Bernstein, Harvard Law School; Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard Kennedy School
Title: “Incidental Representation: Consumers, Big Retail, and Trade Policy.” Presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.
SECTION 55: SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS
Rajni Kothari Award for Best Article on the Politics of South Asia
Award Committee: Sumitra Badrinathan, American University; Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III; Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany
Recipient: Aidan Milliff, Florida State University
Title: “Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies during Violence.” American Political Science Review 118(3): 1379-1397. 2024.
Francine Frankel Best Book Award
Award Committee: Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania; Adam Auerbach, Yale University; Sandipto Dasgupta, The New School
Recipient: Tanu Kumar, The World Bank Group
Title: Building Social Mobility. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Best Graduate Student Conference Paper Award
Award Committee: Papia Sen Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Komal Preet Kaur, Princeton University; Hanif Sajid, Catawba University
Recipient: Emily Russell, Stanford University
Title: “Policing the Plantation: Repressive Institutions and Labor Control in Assam, India.”
SECTION 56: NATIONALISM AND POLITICS
Best Dissertation Award
Award Committee: Rich Haesly, California State University, Long Beach; Jack L. Snyder, Columbia University; Shamiran Mako, Boston University
Recipient: Eun A Jo, College of William & Mary
Title: “Nations After Democracy: Politics of Storytelling in South Korea and Taiwan.” Cornell University, 2024.
